US/UK Reach Trade Deal Favorable To Farmers

Dale Sandlin Trade

The United States and The United Kindgom have reached a trade deal that provides favorable access to farmers. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick provides details on this agreement. During the Announcement at the Oval Office, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke on a few key agricultural commodities that will benefit from this agreement. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, …

American Agriculture History

American Agriculture History Minute: Irrigation Key to Great American Desert Farming

Dan Agri-Business, American Agriculture History Minute, Irrigation, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Agriculture in what is now Colorado began taking shape in the early 1850s. Then Rocky Mountain News founder William N. Byers passed out seeds to make his newspaper “the principal chronicle of early farming in Colorado”. By the 1870s Byers facilitated the colony of Greeley, Colorado’s first major agricultural settlement and …

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USDA Trade Promotion Applications Open

Dale Sandlin Trade, USDA

Tyron Spearman shares the details on the upcoming Trade Promotion Effort by USDA. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

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Beginning of Heifer Retention?

Dale Sandlin Beef, Cattle, Marketing

Oklahoma State Economist Dr. Derrell Peel highlights the key indicators that may show the beginning of heifer retention. Mark Oppold explores this possibility. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

Rollins

Secretary Rollins Announces Expedited Disaster Relief Funds

Dale Sandlin USDA

US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that the department will be Expediting Disaster relief funds. Secretary Rollins touted the USDA’s recent rollout of the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) which a USDA press release calls the “quickest, most effective rollout of emergency payments in the history of the program.”  So far, over 450,000 farmers across 49 states have …

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NCBA Hiring Interns for Communications, Policy and Events for Fall 2025

Dale Sandlin National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA)

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is hiring interns for communications, Policy and Events positions through three unique internship experiences for the fall 2025 semester. The application period is open for an organizational communications internship and Meetings and events internship in Centennial Colorado and the Public Policy Internship in Washington DC. The organizational communications internship is new this year and provides …

adai

Alabama Equine Owners Encouraged To Vaccinate Their Horses

Dale Sandlin Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI), Equine, Livestock

The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Rick Pate and State Veterinarian Dr. Tony Frazier are encouraging horse owners to vaccinate for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile Virus (WNV). EEE is a mosquito-transmitted disease that is more severe than West Nile Virus with a mortality rate of nearly 90%. West Nile Virus is a significant threat to …

factors

Georgia Dairy Producers To Weigh In On Assessments

Dale Sandlin Cattle, Dairy, Marketing

Georgia Dairy Producers will have the opportunity to weigh in on two assessments this month and we caught up with Bryce Trotter from the Georgia Milk Producers who provided an overview of these assessments. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

American Agriculture

American Agriculture History Minute: Early Agricultural Experiments Conducted

Dan American Agriculture History Minute, Research, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. In the early 1820s, after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the U.S. government decided to conduct agricultural experiments in what is now Kansas. Native Indians had long planted corn in northeast Kansas, and the government saw potential in expanding trade west of Kansas City. Records show the government sent Daniel Morgan …

Peanuts

Peanut Stocks Report Featured Uses

Dale Sandlin Peanuts

The latest Stocks Report highlights the products from peanuts and their uses. Tyron Spearman highlights the increases in the use of these products. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024